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Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe

Verena Stolcke
- pp 69-96
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In the contemporary debate concerning European integration and the "problem" of Third World immigration no less than in developments in anthropology in the past decade, the boundedness of cultures has been emphasized as mentioned in this paper.
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In the contemporary debate concerning European integration and the “problem” of Third World immigration no less than in developments in anthropology in the past decade, the boundedness of cultures ...

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Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference

TL;DR: This assumed isomorphism of space, place, and culture results in some significant problems. as mentioned in this paper argues that differences between cultures come about not from their isolation from each other, but because of their connections with each other.